Lemon

Water

Rain falls about 6 irrigations (5 cm each) short in a normal year, so it's risky without water.

Needs about 1,100 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 800 mm it can use in a normal year, and 660 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 15–28 °C on average, and survives 12–36 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 22 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C
• Apr 37 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Lemon: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 17 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district). Government figures count it with lime.

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

On rain alone it gets about 73% of the water it needs, so the money here is worked at 73% of this yield.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025, March–November 2026): about ₹4,500 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹3,600 a quintal, the middle of 3 mandis in your state (latest 11 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹4,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹41,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.